Euric Cain, 21, was arrested today in connection to the shooting of Peter Gold, a 25-year-old student who stepped in when he saw a man, identified by police as Cain, dragging a woman down a street at around 4 a.m. on Friday.

The man accused of shooting Tulane medical student Peter Gold when Gold intervened in the armed robbery of a woman last week has confessed to his role in both crimes after his arrest Monday (Nov. 23), New Orleans' police chief said.

NOPD Superintendent Michael Harrison offered few details of the statement suspected gunman Euric Cain made to detectives. Cain was captured after police and U.S. Marshals found him around 11:30 a.m. Monday, hiding in a home in the 2200 block of Delachaise Street in the Milan neighborhood.

Harrison said there was no doubt police had their man after a three-day manhunt.

"He has accounted for the fact that he was there, committing the crime against the woman, and committing the crime against Mr. Peter Gold," Harrison said, standing alongside Mayor Mitch Landrieu at a news conference at NOPD headquarters. "He did make a full confession."

"Now he will likely spend the rest of his life in jail, as he should," New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said of Cain during a news conference this afternoon.

New Orleans Chief of Police Michael Harrison said that Cain was found at his 17-year-old girlfriend's home when he was arrested and she has subsequently been arrested and charged with acting as an accessory.

Euric Cain, 21, was arrested today in connection to the shooting of Peter Gold, a 25-year-old student who stepped in when he saw a man, identified by police as Cain, dragging a woman down a street at around 4 a.m. on Friday.